A Little Learning

A Little Learning. He. "A marvellous discovery, my dear lady! That life can be produced in sterilised bouillon by the action of radium. What trains of thought it gives rise to! Why, this may have happened in this world of ours, millions of years ago!" She. "Er — yes, of course! I understand that there might have been radium then, but — er — where did they get the beef tea?"

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A Little Learning. He. "A marvellous discovery, my dear lady! That life can be produced in sterilised bouillon by the action of radium. What trains of thought it gives rise to! Why, this may have happened in this world of ours, millions of years ago!" She. "Er — yes, of course! I understand that there might have been radium then, but — er — where did they get the beef tea?"